Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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An article in the Journal of the American Planning Association, “Examining the Effects of Policy Design on Affordable Unit Production Under Inclusionary Zoning Policies,” examines the relationship between inclusionary zoning (IZ) policy features and affordable housing production. Inclusionary…
NLIHC released its annual report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, finding the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of approximately 7 million affordable and available rental homes. Drawing on multiple data sources, the report documents how the pandemic has exacerbated the…
NLIHC will release this year’s The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes on April 21. Published annually, the report examines the supply of rental homes affordable and available to households at different income levels in the U.S. and provides estimates of affordable housing needs for each state, the…
A journal article published in Housing Policy Debate, “‘The Rent Eats First’: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the United States,” examines renter cost-burdens using a residual-income approach, which estimates whether households have enough money left after paying rent and utilities to afford a…